It kills me that this duplicates the 6 all along the east side. If you turned those every 18 minute streetcars into 6's it'd go a long ways towards restoring true frequent service on that line-and better serve the same central east side area. At least even Trimet recognizes what a joke the streetcar is and is going to expand bus service on this same corridor.

(In fairness the first week after it opens isn't the best judgement of a transit line.)

Yes, but when is it going to get any better? And how many more tens of millions of tax dollars is it going to take to put some butts in those very expensive seats? Portland's financial future is toast.

I jumped aboard the new Streetcar, paid my Buck and rode from the Pearl to LLoyd Center to buy something at Macey's. Lloyd Center was as deserted as I have seen it since the weeks after 9/11. I then reboarded and went to the end of the line at the Opera and OMSI and back to the Pearl. I enjoyed it.

I was worried that the streetcar would tie up traffic on Grand or MLK, but fortunately the streetcar runs so infrequently that that won't be a problem.

Of course, the tracks are out there 24x7 to crash bicycle riders - particularly where the tracks sinuously move from one lane to another, like on Broadway. It's going to be a real mess once the rain starts...

The southwest corridor is devouring $10 million planning plans that voters never asked for and would never approve.

All around the region similar planning shews through millions upon millions.
All justified by agencies and bureaucrats who's over paid jobs depend upon layers of tax funded public deceit and a lazy media lapping it all up.

I observed 8 trains yesterday MLK and Grand Ave from about 7am-2pm my highest number of riders was 7 about 12:30 in front of Sheridan Fruit on MLK.
Just watched a south bound on MLK and SE Ash 8:15 this am 6 riders. Yep go by train.

You folks haven't picked up on the plan ?
Give Trimet a year or three and they will decree that the 6 bus will no longer run along that same route, it will stop short at a trolley station and you well get the privilege of transferring and enjoying ridding it instead.

the 6 bus will no longer run along that same route, it will stop short at a trolley station and you well get the privilege of transferring and enjoying ridding it instead.

And the revenue from those riders will be fully apportioned to the Streetcar, so that TriMet can again claim that bus service is too expensive and thus it must be cut or fares increased and that it can't be bothered to replace buses that are 20+ years old when the lifespan of said bus was 12 years old.

Road Work

Miles run year to date: 113
At this date last year: 155
Total run in 2016: 155
In 2015: 271
In 2014: 401
In 2013: 257
In 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269